Paraaortic lymph node micrometastasis and tumor cell microinvolvement in advanced gastric carcinoma
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- 作者：Shoji Natsugoe ; Saburo Nakashima ; Masataka Matsumoto ; Akihiro Nakajo ; Futoshi Miyazono ; Fumio Kijima ; Sumiya Ishigami ; Kuniaki Aridome ; Shuichi Hokita and Masamichi Baba ; et al.
- 关键词：Key words ; advanced gastric cancer ; lymph node metastasis ; micrometastasis ; immunohistochemistry ; cytokeratin
- 刊名：Gastric Cancer
- 出版时间：November 1999
- 出版年：1999
- 期刊代码：74_1436-3291
- 类别：med
- 卷：2
- 期：3
- 页码：179-185
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
Background. Paraaortic lymph node dissection in advanced gastric carcinoma is controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence and significance of micrometastasis (MM) or tumor cell microinvolvement (TCM) in these critical lymph nodes.